... this time for months
Decision to use blocking blacklists and whitelists means another delay in adding auto-blocking to browserBy Gregg Keizer
June 20, 2013
Computerworld - Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months.
Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or CCH, launched by Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society.
"Today Mozilla is committing to work ... to develop the CCH so that browsers can use its lists to manage exceptions to a visited-based third-party cookie block," wrote Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO, in a post on his personal blog.
The CCH, which is headed by Alexia McDonald, director of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society -- and formerly a part-time privacy research officer at Mozilla -- will come up with a list of sites to be blocked by browsers, as well as another that includes blocking exceptions.
ontinue at:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240218/Mozilla_again_postpones_Firefox_third_party_cookie_blocking_this_time_for_months?
June 19, 2013
AUDITIONS/REHEARSALS
FESTIVE BRASS OF MYRTLE BEACH. New members welcome: Rehearsals 7 p.m. Mondays at First United Methodist Church, 904 65th Ave. N., Myrtle Beach. 293-6162 or festivebrassofmyrtlebeach.org.
GRAND STRAND HARMONY CHORUS/SWEET ADELINES. Women invited to rehearsals 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Surfside United Methodist Church, 800 13th Ave. N., Surfside Beach. 650-7323 or www.gsharmonychorus.com.
DANCING
BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES, by Carolina Dance Partners, 7-9 p.m. Fridays at First Presbyterian Church’s Wilkes Hall, 3810 Grissom Parkway, Myrtle Beach. $5 per class, and no partner necessary. 448-4496 or www.myrtlebeachpresbyterianchurch.org.
Much more - Festivsls, Special Events, Roller Skating, Hot Rod Events, etc. - at:
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/06/19/3539660/myrtle-beach-area-arts-and-cultural.html
More output, produced faster may be great metrics for machines, but for homo sapiens, the most powerful metric is engagement.
by Linda Stone
Jun 18 2013
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, it seemed machines could do anything. At that time, productivity experts predicted that machines and new technologies would mean we'd only have to work four hours a day. But, as we all know, that's not what has happened. Instead, the definition of human productivity merged with the definition of machine productivity: more work, faster pace, more efficiently.
We tend to think of productivity as maximizing output or quantity. How much can we accomplish? How many emails, calls, and meetings can we power through? We work hard to sync our productivity with time-management techniques.
A few years ago in a set of interviews, I asked people if they managed their time, their attention, or both.
Mid-level managers talked about their best practices for time-management, and at the same time, expressed their concerns: "I just can't get it all done. There's no way to keep up."
Continued at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/machines-cant-flow-the-difference-between-mechanical-and-human-productivity/276969/?google_editors_picks=true
By Anita Crone
Friday, June 14, 2013
Murrells Inlet has grown up.
What once was a sleepy fishing village and the departure point for headboats today packs an economic wallop.
And for the first time, the strength of that is quantified through a recently completed study for Murrells Inlet 2020, paid for with a grant from the Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation and completed by Coastal Carolina University’s Center for Economic and Community Development.
Continued at:
http://www.gtowntimes.com/local/Murrells-Inlet-2020-releases-economic-impact-statement
By Christine Vestal, Stateline
Jun 05, 2013
Consumers want to know: Will health insurance cost more, less, or about the same on the new health insurance exchanges?
Politicians, for their own reasons, have the same question about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on insurance in 2014.
California recently announced the prices of plans that have been approved for the exchange. Surprising to many, the 2014 rates are substantially lower than comparable plans on the market today, according to Covered California, which runs the exchange.
That’s good news for Californians and for the Obama administration.
Critics of the federal health law have long predicted that its new insurance regulations – such as the requirement that carriers cover people with pre-existing conditions – will cause premium “rate shock.” Proponents counter that the law contains market protections that should keep prices in check. In addition, low income people will receive subsidies to defray higher prices.
Nationwide, the price that uninsured Americans will have to pay for coverage in 2014 will vary widely from state to state. Although early news on premium prices from a handful of states is mostly promising, critics maintain that when exchanges open in all 50 states, the picture may be very different.
Continue at:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/June/05/Stateline-FAQ-online-insurance-marketplace-costs-exchanges.aspx?p=1
Facebook says it received almost 10,000 US government requests for user data in the second half of 2012
Reuters, guardian.co.uk,
Saturday 15 June 2013
Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallout from disclosures about a secret government data-collection program.
Facebook on Friday became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests for user data in the second half of 2012, covering 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts. Facebook has more than 1.1 billion users worldwide.
The majority of those requests are routine police inquiries, a person familiar with the company said, but under the terms of the deal with the justice department, Facebook is precluded from saying how many were secret orders issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Until now, all information about requests under Fisa, including their existence, were deemed secret.
continued at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/15/facebook-microsoft-release-surveillance-figures
